this agreement, there should be certain requirements, and yet it haunt been cooperative in combating narcoterrorism, and ecuador is very close to the farc, which is waring against the colombian -- warring against the colombian government. its independent media has come under attack. its government has corrupted legal systems harming u.s. companies. just to go into some of the specifics, the president of ecuador, president correa, has dissolved the parliament there, the congress. he's refaced all the judges in the country. -- he's replaced all the judges of the country. he's seized control of the televisions there. the state department's 2009 human rights report cites concerns with what the state department calls corruption and the denial of due process within ecuador's judicial system. transparency international ranked this country as one of the worst surveyed for 2008 in terms of its corruption perceptions index. one of the worst in corruption. and it has announced that it will withdraw from its bilateral investment treaty with the united states. this bill, frankly, would be better without ecuador